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DVD Winnie the Pooh - Seasons of Giving
Three marvelous cold-weather stories from Disney's popular Pooh television series are combined into one video. A slight error in judgment has led the gang in the 100 Acre Wood into spring in "Groundpiglet Day." Rabbit's rushing about defeats the true purpose of the holidays in "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving." Rabbit is also the center of "Find Her, Keep Her" when he adopts a wayward bird. Even though this is a new collection of cartoons, the 70-minute tape keeps closely to the spirit of the '60s Pooh classics (unlike previous Pooh cartoons). A new song from Disney songmasters the Sherman brothers is sung (along with their famous title number), and Paul Winchell returns as the unmistakable voice of Tigger. That's not the late Sterling Holloway voicing Pooh, but a remarkable impersonation by ace mimic Jim Cummings. (Ages 3 and up) --Doug Thomas
Review(s): DVD Winnie the Pooh - Seasons of Giving
Every season there is a reason to be thankful
This video is a composite of three stories that make up seventy minutes. This starts off with many coming attractions for theatre (February 2000) and video, so they are kind of old now and we usually fast forward through them.
The difference with Winnie The Pooh - Seasons of Giving and the other collections is the stories go together, when one ends it leads into the next making it flow smoother. There are five new songs brought to this video that are delightful to hear year round.
The movie begins with Tigger, Piglet and Pooh on a windy day trying to figure out if it is winter yet. They head to Rabbit's house since he has a calendar, but they are all unaware that pages flew off the calendar making it seem like Groundhog's Day. The gang wants to make sure there is no more winter so they go in search of a Groundhog. Gopher is not up for this task so Piglet is recruited, but cannot see a thing because his hat is over his head. No one else knows that and assumes since he cannot see he means no shadow, so winter is over.
Everyone now goes to their home for their spring-cleaning and wake up to mounds of snow. Rabbit is upset and storms over to Piglet's house to protest on his Groundhog duties. Piglet is sad when Rabbit leaves so off he goes to find a real Groundhog. A lot of silliness happens with Rabbit thinking Piglet melted in the snow and Rabbit finds the missing calendar pages alerting his friends that it is only November.
Here is the opening line for the next story when Tigger announces he must get his hot chocolatey ice cream ready for Thanksgiving. Now it is Thanksgiving day with all the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood bringing their favorites to a table set up for their Thanksgiving dinner. When Rabbit arrives it all changes when he informs them Thanksgiving is all about Tradition.
They are all glad to have learned this and ask Rabbit what they can do. It just so happens Rabbit came with a list of chores for each to do in preparation of their Thanksgiving Feast.
You have to wonder why Rabbit would send Pooh and Piglet to get a turkey and not do it himself, but he is in charge of decorations leaving Owl for china and Gopher for pie. Eeyore and Tigger are paired up to hunt berries but get stuck in a trap Pooh and Piglet make to catch a turkey.
When they all get back to the table around noon disaster strikes and everything is ruined so the dinner is called off. While sitting at home eating his honey Pooh decides he should share what little he has and heads over to Piglet's House. They all gather again with their favorites they made earlier to the table in the Hundred Acre Wood. They all go to Rabbit's house asking him to come to the Thanksgiving Feast and they enjoy themselves.
Next a note arrives from Kessie so Roo asks who that is which leads into the repeated story of how they rescued the bird one winter. Rabbit took care of Kessie, read to her and taught her about gardening. Rabbit was not happy when Owl started teaching Kessie to fly so she could go south for the winter. It is apparent that Rabbit has fond feelings for Kessie and does not want to see her get hurt. The rest of his friends are eager to assist in learning to fly, which makes Rabbit upset.
After Kessie leaves Piglet is asking Pooh why Rabbit did not like Kessie, so Pooh explains to Piglet that sometimes people care too much, I think it is called Love. Then Piglet is surprised to hear this and wants to see if Rabbit knows about this, but they show Rabbit alone on the hill saddened by Kessie's departure. Pooh tells Piglet that Rabbit already knows and this is the end of the story to Rue on how Rabbit saved Kessie.
This leads into the story of decorating the Christmas tree. Christopher Robbin is in the story as well and they all work together until Rabbit realizes they forgot a star for the top of the tree. They look into the sky thinking they see a falling star but it turns out to be Kessie wishing Rabbit a Merry Christmas. Piglet states that Rabbit did get his wish after all.
My almost five-year old watches this video over and over again no matter what the time of year is. He likes to dance around when the songs are playing and I know most of the words to the songs by heart. This video will show how the friends make their holidays brighter by sharing stories and favorites for their meal.
They learn to overcome their defeats and continue with new traditions while enjoying the season. This is a video that is great to watch any time of the year but especially when fall starts and you might be waiting for winter to arrive.
The most horrible embarrassment Disney has made
Anyone with a two-year-old will have to watch the same movie over and over and over again. This is NOT the movie you want to watch. Better options include both The Tigger Movie and Piglet's Big Movie.
First of all, the animation is very bad. Remember the Pooh cartoons that used to be on ABC on Saturday mornings? That's what this is like. Choppy animation and sharp coloring. Not the soothing watercolored sketches that are in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
THEN - they've completely massacred the characters. If you like the sensitive nature of Piglet, the generosity of Pooh, the impulsivity of Tigger, and the uptight Rabbit, you will hate this movie.
The movie follows no distinct plot line. It begins with a misunderstanding of the season (is it November or February?) that can be blamed on individual sheets of Rabbit's day-by-day calendar (now, where would a rabbit get one of these???) blowing away in the wind.
Next, there are about twenty or thirty minutes dealing with the way they figure out that it's nearly Thanksgiving (that's odd - I didn't realize that the English celebrated American Thanksgiving) and the accompanying preparations. Naturally all of Rabbit's friends bungle the Thanksgiving, but make it all right later.
As if this movie wasn't bad enough to start, we morph from the first story line into an absolutely dreadful segment (which takes up the rest of the movie) about a horrid little kestral named, appropriately, Kessie. Kessie is a very whiny little bird who is somehow orphaned and abandoned in the Hundred Acre Wood in DECEMBER.
The rest of the movie focuses on Rabbit's foster parenting ability, and his struggle to let Kessie go, as the seasons change and she prepares to fly south.
As a previous reviewer said, it's extremely obvious that this movie was patched together to get it ready in time for Christmas.
Adorable Movie for 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Fans
In this wonderful 70-minute film, we are brought to the Hundred Acre Wood in three different delightful tales that are sure to brighten up even the coldest day of the year, for viewers of all ages.
SEASONS OF GIVING starts on a cold and blustery day in the Hundred Acre Wood, when Piglet, Pooh, Rabbit, and Tigger set out on a quest to find Winter, a season that they seem to have "missed." While searching for Winter, the four friends begin a wild search to find the perfect ingredients for the greatest Thanksgiving feast, which eventually leads to the Christmas holidays, and a surprise visit from a very special friend.
In the first story, GROUNDPIGLET DAY, we meet up with the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood, as they ring in Spring.
The second story, starring Rabbit, A WINNIE THE POOH THANKSGIVING, we find the beloved Rabbit rushing about, which ultimately defeats the true meaning of the holiday season all together.
The third, and final story, again starring Rabbit, FIND HER, KEEP HER, features Rabbit showing his soft, and caring side, instead of his often grumpy side, when he finds, and adopts a wayward baby bird.
Featuring gorgeous animation, five brand new songs on this straight-to-video release, and everyone's favorite characters, Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, Beaver, Roo, Kanga, and Christopher Robin, this film is sure to be a pleaser for the entire family to gather around the TV, and watch during this enchanting season. Winni-the-Pooh fans can not miss this movie!
Pooh Bear and his pals in the Hundred Acre Wood celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve in a pair of adventures folded into this 65-minute made-for-video feature. In the first, the silly old bear plays Saint Nick to his buddies ("I always thought he'd be taller") after failing to get an errant wish list off to Santa, while identity crisis strikes the gang in the second half. Piglet inherits Tigger's hop and jumps like a pogo stick, and Eeyore (dressed in Pooh's shirt) becomes a happy-go-lucky honey lover. Welcome to The Twilight Zone according to Winnie the Pooh. There's not much A.A. Milne in this TV-style holiday special, but it's a bouncy little production that should entertain the wee ones with its warm fuzzies, good company, slapstick energy, and life lessons. --Sean... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 04 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Friendship and compassion provide a memorable Easter celebration in Springtime with Roo. Roo's excitement on Easter morning is boundless, but when he, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore arrive at Rabbit's door for the big Easter egg hunt, Rabbit seems to have forgotten Easter and proclaims it "Spring Cleaning Day" instead. A dispirited Pooh and his gang quickly rally and decide to surprise Rabbit by putting up his Easter decorations. Rabbit is not at all happy with their efforts and furiously declares that Easter is canceled. It turns out that everyone involved has been selfish in some degree by failing to consider the feelings and desires of one another. Can a little mutual understanding and caring salvage Easter for Roo, Rabbit, and the rest of the gang? (Ages 2 to... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Elliot M. Bour - Saul Andrew Blinkoff DVD Release Date: Released the 09 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This DVD contains two previousley released on VHS Winnie the Pooh packaged features, "Un-Valentine's Day" and "A Valentine For You."
"A Valentine For You" is the better of the two features. When Owl tells the gang that Christopher Robin has been bitten by a smitten, a bug that causes love sickness, they go on a quest to find another one because they believe that if another one bites him, it will cancel out the first bite.
"Un-Valentine's Day" was an episode of the hugeley popular "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" series. Rabbit decides to cancel Valentine's Day because Pooh sent everybody too many valentines the previous year. But when Pooh receives a pot of honey, he tries to find out who sent it and return the favor. Without commercials, this episode is only 21 minuites... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 04 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Frankenpooh A spooky theme runs through several stories in this collection. "The Monster Frankenpooh" finds Dr. Von Tigger turning Pooh into a somewhat familiar-looking, scary creature. "Things That Go Piglet in the Night" features the characters on a ghost chase, and "Pooh Moon" finds Pooh and Piglet searching for honey while everyone else assumes they're missing--not just missing, but taken by the Grabme Gotcha. Charming visuals, terrific characters, touching stories. A winner. Spookable Pooh It's a rainy day, and Pooh and his friends are spending it in Christopher Robin's attic. Two stories from the delightful animated series follow: "A Knight to Remember," which finds the timid Piglet transported to a magical kingdom, where he fights a dreadful dragon, and... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 27 August 2002 This item is currently not available.
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The paucity of quality family movies available is underscored by the fact that everything about The Tigger Movie screams direct-to-video, yet it has put up some impressive box-office numbers. Its very premise belies Tigger's memorable song, "the most wonderful thing about tiggers is, I'm the only one," as our bouncy, flouncy hero decides, apropos of nothing, that he has family out there, somewhere, and he's determined to find them. Well, a 6-year-old can figure out that in the end, Tigger'll realize his pals in the Hundred Acre Woods are, in fact, his family, and that a locket introduced early on will wind up in little Roo's hands. The animation may be acceptable on the small screen, but looks pretty cheesy by contemporary feature standards, although an avalanche near the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jim Cummings Director(s): Jun Falkenstein DVD Release Date: Released the 22 August 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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